Private-Sector Resources

This section used to contain listings
of technical and business service providers
willing to work with individual inventors and entrepreneurs
in the eastern Great Lakes region.
With the growth of the Internet,
this is no longer useful.

Today, anyone can find any service
they're looking for through
Google .
And with the popularity of email,
we're no longer limited to services
in our own local region —
we can work as comfortably with
service providers in other states
and other countries as easily
as with one that is local.

Not only are there a greater number
of service providers to choose from,
we're now seeing many more
specialty services becoming available —
because it's now trivial for a freelancer —
or a moonlighter looking for some extra part-time income —
to throw up a website looking for work
in his or her particular specialty.

While the larger service providers
may not have any great interest
in working with the "little guy" —
these individual freelancers and moonlighters certainly will —
and their fees are likely to be considerably lower,
because they don't have brick and mortar overheads to support.